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Autore: | Nunn Chris |
Titolo: | Who was Mrs. Willett? : landscapes and dynamics of mind / / Christ Nunn |
Pubblicazione: | Exceter [England] ; ; Charlottesville, Va., : Imprint Academic, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina: | 153 |
Soggetto topico: | Consciousness |
Mediums | |
Spiritualists | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Body matter -- Introduction -- 1: Of Spooks and the Gentry -- 2: What Size Tells Us -- 3: Picturing Mentality -- 4: The Boundaries of Mind -- 5: Turning on the Lights -- 6: The Shape of Consciousness? -- 7: Of Matter, Laws and Time -- 8: The Wilder Shores of Experience -- 9: Making Sense of 'Mrs Willett' -- 10: The End of Time? -- Back matter -- Bibliography -- Also available. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Here is an account of mentality and human experience, written for a multi-disciplinary readership. The focus is on how mind, consciousness and selves inter-relate, extending into exploration of ideas about the nature of awareness and a search for relevant evidence.'Consciousness studies' has reached something of a crossroads nowadays. Computational approaches to mind and 'quantum consciousness' theories, have not lived up to early hopes. Neuroscience has made huge strides in the last few y... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Who was Mrs. Willett |
ISBN: | 1-84540-412-2 |
1-84540-413-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812236303321 |
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